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As Easter dawns this weekend, Christians across the globe will gather to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ — a singular event that overthrew the dominion of death and offered instead the hope of salvation. It is the beating heart of a faith that has shaped the moral and cultural architecture of the West for two millennia.
The spiritual significance of Easter is its radical claim that Christ’s resurrection is the ultimate victory over our sin and mortality. This is not a mere metaphor or myth but an historical and metaphysical reality. The empty tomb testifies to a God who personally entered human suffering, conquered it, and continues to offer redemption to a fallen world. In our nihilistic age, when many replace real meaning with political activism and an idolization of the self, Easter’s message proclaims that our lives have purpose, that our sacrifices are not in vain, and that love triumphs over despair. It is a reorientation of the soul toward eternity.
Culturally, Easter has been a cornerstone of Western civilization, its themes of renewal and redemption woven into our art, literature, and moral imagination. From Dante’s Divine Comedy to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the resurrection infuses us with humility but has also inspired our highest aspirations. It has fueled the creation of hospitals, the abolition of slavery, the rise of charity, and the concept of inalienable human rights—ideas rooted in the revelation that every soul is made in God’s image, that all lives matter.
Yet, in our time, Easter’s message is threatened by enemies increasingly hostile to it. Christians are tested in a crucible of unprecedented persecution globally. Addressing diplomats and international officials gathered for a “Standing with Persecuted Christians: Defending the Faith and Christian Values” event at the United Nations in Geneva on March 3, Vatican representative Archbishop Ettore Balestrero said the scale of persecution of Christians was stark and ongoing, and required urgent attention from governments and international institutions responsible for protecting fundamental rights.
The numbers are staggering. “Almost 400 million Christians worldwide face persecution or violence, making them the most persecuted religious community in the world,” he said, noting that “one in seven Christians is affected.” Nearly 5,000 Christians were martyred in 2025 alone – roughly 13 deaths every day. The Open Doors organization notes that that number has already been surpassed so far in 2026. In Nigeria, Boko Haram and Fulani militants slaughter Christian villagers with impunity, their churches reduced to ash. In China, the Communist Party demolishes crosses and jails pastors, replacing the Gospel with state-sanctioned propaganda. In the Middle East, ancient Christian communities—descendants of the faith’s earliest witnesses—are being erased by jihadist violence and systemic discrimination.
This persecution is ideological as well as corporeal. In the West, cultural Marxists have waged a relentless and largely successful campaign to secularize the public square, purging Christian symbols and values from cultural institutions. The neo-Marxist aim is a society unmoored from transcendence, in which the State, not God, defines morality. The Left understands that to remake society, it must dismantle its spiritual foundations. By marginalizing Christianity, they aim to sever the West from this moral compass, leaving it adrift in a sea of relativism.
This secularizing zeal has birthed a culture of grievance and division, in which identity politics intentionally negates the universal brotherhood that Easter affirms. The result is a civilization in decline: spiritually hollow, culturally fragmented, and increasingly authoritarian. Schools, once grounded in Judeo-Christian ethics, now inculcate ideologies that promote moral relativism over the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. Universities, media, and even many churches have embraced a progressive orthodoxy that recasts Christian virtues as relics of oppression and intolerance. The rise of cancel culture, the suppression of free speech, and the weaponization of institutions against dissenters are symptoms of a society that has rejected Easter’s call to truth and grace.
Easter, with its humble yet glorious affirmation of divine authority, is an affront to the Left’s worldly designs. It reminds us that no earthly power can command our ultimate allegiance. The resurrection is both a personal promise and a cosmic one, a hope that has sustained the West through its darkest hours — Roman persecution, barbarian invasions, world wars. It is a rallying cry for those of us who refuse to submit to the spirit of our decadent age. It calls Christians to stand firm with the courage of conviction.
This means defending the faith in the public square. It means rebuilding cultural institutions — schools, churches, families — that reflect the values of truth, beauty, and sacrifice. It means bearing witness to the Gospel in a world that despises it, knowing that the God who raised Christ from the dead can also raise a civilization from its ashes.
Easter assures us that no persecution, no ideology, no earthly power can extinguish the truth. This is not blind optimism; history is replete with examples of Christianity’s resilience, from the early martyrs to the medieval monks who nurtured civilization for a thousand years after the collapse of Rome, to the dissidents who defied communist tyranny with the cross. Today’s persecuted, from Nigerian villagers to Chinese house churches, embody this same indomitable spirit. Their witness shames the complacency of the comfortable West.
This weekend, as churches fill with hymns of triumph, let us remember what is at stake. Historically, spiritually, and civilizationally, Easter is a revolutionary act. It declares that death is not the end, that evil will not have the last word, and that a broken world can be made whole. In a time of chaos and re-paganizing decay, this is the message the West desperately needs. The question is whether we will have the courage to carry it. Will we return to the faith that birthed our greatness, or will we surrender to a secular dystopia where power, not principle, reigns?
The tomb is empty. Christ is risen. And the future belongs to those who dare to believe it.
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Thank you for your article. It is so true. The greatest revolutionary of all time was and is Jesus Christ. He has and gives us the power to dismantle the works of darkness and release the power and love of God. By the cross and resurrection all of creation is reset and renewed with divine alignment. The enemy cannot win, but shall surely put up a fight. Read the book of Revelation, Christ is King, Judge, the Lamb of God Slain from the Foundation of the World who overcomes all. Pray for the persecuted Christians and stand up here while we can.
“The greatest revolutionary of all time was and is Jesus Christ.”
The Lord Jesus Christ was not a revolutionary. He is God the Son. He came to fulfill the five Davidic mandates required of the Messiah; that of: Redeemer, Deliverer, Avenger, King and Blesser. The book of Psalms lays that out. The Lord fulfilled just one mandate thus far, that of Redeemer.
Luke 24:21 “…we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel…”
“By the cross and resurrection all of creation is reset and renewed with divine alignment.”
That’s not true.
Romans 8:22-23 “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now…waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption…”
The curse on the earth will be lifted when the Lord returns.
Isaiah 65:25 “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock…”
Though there was undeniable proof via many many witnesses of Christ’s resurrection, some at Corinth did not accept the fact. “If Christ be not risen, our preaching is in vain, we remain in our sins, and are now of all men most miserable”.
My 56 years of stumbling discipleship have not been in vain.
HAPPY EASTER
Mtr. Tapson, or anyone, take a view/listen to the below. It was taught last night at a church in Illinois. See what you think.
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Jesus lost his temper once according to the Bible. It happened when he walked into the Temple and saw the moneychangers there. He then turned over the tables and cast them out.
The bankers were outraged. They then hired a mob and had him tried for treason before Pontius Pilate. Pilate said “i can find not wrong in this man.” The rent a mob screamed “Give us Barabus” Jesus was crucified of course. Two thousand years later we are still fighting bankers and the rent a mob.
Prayers for our fellows and Jesus are never more important than this weekend.
The tomb is empty. Christ is risen.
He is risen indeed.
Amen.
Maranatha.
Will believers ever stop connecting to easter, the pagan goddess of fertility with the risen Messiah?
Sadly, it is too woven into “orthodox” (small o) Christianity. THis year was one of those years where Passover and the celebration of the Ressurection commonly called Easter stood in proper timing to each other. E. W. Bullinger over or about 150 years ago showed from scipture that Jesus died on a Wednesday and rose on Saturday.
He died on Thursday. Rose early Sunday morning while it was still dark. Listen to teaching above that’s mentioned in my post
Death is a devastating event and fear of death can be overwhelming for most humans. Hence, the need to believe in some form of an eternal life after death or reincarnation.
But what if, beginning in childhood, we were taught that this is the only life there is, the only life you will ever have, the only chance at life, and you must cherish and develop this only life like a delicate and fragile rose, and make it blossom beautifully, making the best of it at every step of your life?
It stands to reason that the more a person believes there will be other chances, other opportunities, other lifetimes, the more they will discount this opportunity – this lifetime.
You can overgome the incorrect teachings of your parents. I will pray for you that the Holy Spirit will reside in your heart.
Dear THX 1138:
Would you please tell us what evidence we can rely on if we were to teach our children that this is the only life they will ever have?
Kent
But what if, beginning in childhood, you were taught to leave us alone.
“It is appointed unto a man ONCE to die….” Hebrews 9:27.
Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
That verse pertains to Jewish churches going through and enduring “the time of Jacob’s trouble” in Daniel’s 70th week, which is still future.
It does not have anything to do with what God wants men to do today. He wants men to believe in and trust His Son for what He did for them.
1 Corinthians 15:3 “…I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;”
Now why would just “Jewish Churches” have to “endure” the Tribulation?
Do you know what a “Church” is? Are they believers or not?
Your ‘Paul is Savior Doctrines of the Devil’ have you massively twisted in your thinking…
Oh, your back, What a shame.
Does THX stand for Thankless Human (Merely) Xisting? You nearly always come across as a lurking, smirking, mocking naysayer, fighting against light, hope and restoration. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thessalonians+4%3A13&version=ESV
It’s a name. Not a pagan belief on a Christian’s part.
And He died and rose again.
Let’s not lose sight of that.
To argue over which day is a bit much.
Few, if any, would want to celebrate their birthday’s, or some anniversary, on different days and different months each year, depending on the state of the moon. He died and rose on specific dates in Abib/Nicene. Some traditions lead to more bad tradition.
Galatians 4:9-11 “…after that ye have known God…how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
“Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you…”
1 Corinthians 13:6 (Charity) “…rejoiceth in the truth;”
The temporary death that He died makes available to us the life that He gives from eternity. The spiritual regeneration is an infusion of life from eternity that changes everything for the repentant and faithful believer. I can now say that there is no demand upon me that is not a demand upon Christ who is alive in me……………happy easter
Even in the U.S. Christians are not free from persecution. Pastors are arrested on street corners for preaching the Gospel, and In California Newsom still insists on fining churches millions for disobeying his order to stay closed while liquor stores and mass anti-American demonstrations were permitted. It’s hardly on the dreadful scale of Nigeria. At least … not yet. Newsom is running for president and he wants to turn all America into California.
With 400 million dead all over the world, no Christian is safe.
With St. Paul we can say
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
_____Galations 2:20
Whatever. I’m in no position to judge. The globe is filled with denominational difference and variations. My dad believed in the Great Pumpkin, so it’s hard for me to criticize.
What a great ending for your article, Mark!
If Jesus had not risen from the dead, faith in Him would be pointless!
In the day of the joy for our Lord’s resurrection, let everything that has breath praise His Holy Name!
Thank you, Mark, for this superb piece: Lucid, compellingly argued, and accurate in every detail both historically and as a clear statement and defense of the value and validity of longstanding Christian Belief and Faith.
If I were a Bishop, I would award it the Church’s official Nihil Obstat.
But since I’m not, please accept this “fallen Catholic” layman’s nihil obstat instead, and my encouragement to everyone–even or especially a certain Ayn Rand atheist who posts on these pages multiple times every day–to read, and more importantly to reflect and THINK about, what you’ve written here.
It might save (at least a few of) their souls!
With Easter,, there leads to the very most important event in history which is the resurrection of Christ from the dead. ..
For that is where the real foundation of Christianity is the resurrection of Christ from the dead, First Corinthians 15:1-6. To it more strongly, if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead the entire religion of Christianity if false, it’s a hoax. The Bible confirms this statement. First Corinthians 15:12-19.
Roman guards has been stationed at the tomb of Jesus to make sure that His disciple would not be able to steal the body of Jesus and then make a false claim of His resurrection, Matthew 27::62-65.
Besides the disciples of Jesus too scared to do much of anything but run away and go hiding, Matthew 26:55.
Furthermore, if those disciples did, somehow, steal the body of Jesus and then falsely claim the he rose from the dead. They would be fools to then to give and risk their lives on what they knew is false report and a lie.
Besides, I had been to the Jerusalem and seen such an ancient tomb and it has large rock covering to its entrance. If the body of Jesus had been stolen, there would have been much ground disturbance at the difficult task at moving such a large heavy rock covering. Therefore, a hoax resurrection could be easily discovered and exposed as a hoax.
It’s a good thing at this time of year to imagine what it would be like to know with absolute certainty that the next day you would be slapped and punched in the face, have a crown of thorns beaten into your head with reeds, spit upon, viciously scourged all over your body, forced to drag your heavy cross to the place of your execution, nailed through the palms of your hands with the points coming out through your wrists, then nailed again through your feet, and lastly mocked as you suffered and died..
Any man who could do that to save the human race was not only a man but the eternal Son of God, the definition of Love.
Jesus Christ: “I died for you”. Allah: You must die for me”. Which of these revolutionaries was crucified for your sin burden and made you guilt free by his resurrection?
“Allah’s” command (as relayed to us by his “Messenger,” the “Prophet” Mohammed, is identical to Satan’s: “Do as thou wilt! Kill; Rape; Plunder; Enslave; Steal; Covet thy neighbor’s wife, concubine, ass, cock, cow, goat and property!”
Not just the text of the Koran itself, but the real-life behavior of “devout” Mohammedans for the past 14 centuries–intensifying to a fever pitch in the present–proves this FACT beyond any serious dispute.
Any (serious, documented, logically argued) disagreement?
(The following wss before the airnan was rescued):
MS Now’s “Palestinian” Islamic Ayman Mohyeldin Hands Iran a Propaganda Lifeline While U.S. Service Member Missing.
On April 3, 2026, as Americans anxiously awaited news of a missing U.S. crew member from a fighter jet shot down over Iran, MS Now’s Egyptian-“Palestinian” Ayman Mohyeldin used his platform during an exchange with Rep. Seth Moulton to tee up a not-so-subtle narrative and worse, a nod to the enemy. [On “Chris Jansing Reports”].
Every conversation by monotheists is comprised of pure pedantry. Do you Christians ever do anything besides count how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Everyone hates Christians. Why? Because unbelievers hate the truth, being slaves to their sins.
There is only one path to salvation and that is through Jesus; By Faith Alone. He said No one comes to the Father except by Me.
No works can save anyone and no other god can save anyone. There is only one God, and that is the God the Father, God His Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Triune God.
It’s everyone’s choice not to believe in Him but don’t complain when you eventually find yourself in Hell, for all eternity.